NOTEBOOK OF RECORDED NOTES ON ARTICLES
in the str[uggle]. Real* support to the C[onstitutional]-D[emocrats] at the present] t[ime]
is the qu[estion of] r[evolution] rising. On the street or in
p[arlia]m[ent]? (Cf. Marx on Ledru-Rollin 1849).**
Utilization] of leg[al] and semi-legal] means? Absolutely yes. W[orkers'] c[ongren]s? — yes. Assemblies? Yes. But to util[ize]
something close does not mean to merge, to dissolve. In order] to utilize, one must be [independent], w[hole], un[ited].

The abs[urdity] of [the] n[ew]-I[skra] tac[tic]: "agreement] and
support]" plus "mock elections as a possible] motive
for rising]". There] m[ay] be] a thousand and 1 reasons.

No. The tac[tic] now is different: 1) Merciless] str[uggle]
against compromising C[onstitutional]-D[emocrats]. 2) Persecution of them for the fact that] they went into the Duma.
3) Development] of independent] p[arty] of s[ocial] d[emocrats] in str[uggle] with C[onstitutional]-D[emocrats]
and in agitation] concerning the] G. D[uma]. 4) Preparation for upris[ing],
which is coming and in which, not in "p[arlia]m[entarism]" now lies the crux of the situation. 5) Utilization] for this] preparation], for agitation]
of all semi-legal] and legal] means.
6) C[oncentra]t[ion] on slogans: armed] upris[ing], r[evolutionary]
a[rmy], temporary] r[evolutionary] g[overnment].

1 In No. 9036 of "Birzhevy Vedomosti" of 30 (17) September 1905, there was printed under the heading "New Party" a note: "On 16 September in Moscow a new party was formed, the party of Constitutional-Democrats, which in its program moved to the left of the zemstvo majority party. For brevity, the party will be called K-D...." In response to this note "Nash Zhizn'" in No. 272 of 1 October (18 September) wrote: "According to information we possess from a source beyond any doubt, this report is far from the truth and is the result of poor awareness on the part of the newspaper."

II.

* EXCERPT FROM "VOSSISCHE ZEITUNG" ON THE ZEMSTVO CONGRESS.

Z[emstvo] c[ongress].

Voss[ische] Z[ei]t[un]g (4.X.05. M[ornin]g E[dition]) publishes
a letter from a participant in the Z[emstvo] c[ongress]. Concerning the character] of the c[ongress]: "alles so parlamentarisch"... "reif für die Duma"...

* Two poss[ibili]t[ies]:
(1) The G. D[uma] merely grumbles. (2) The G. D[uma]
fights for the g[overnmen]t of the b[ourgeoisie]. (Tertium non datur. [A third is not given. —Ed.] For r[evolu]t[ion] the G. D[uma] cannot struggle cons[istently]). And in 1 and in 2 the uprising] decides. As for (2) — a c[onvenien]t pretext, nothing more. Danger of the Petrunkevichs et al. in power.

** — (Cf. Marx on Ledru-Rollin. 1849). —Ed.